Climate change driving unprecedented forest fire loss

Euractiv | Aug 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM
  • Forest fires supercharged by climate change are burning twice as much global tree cover as 20 years ago.
  • The vast majority, some 70%, of fire-related tree cover loss over the last two decades occurred in boreal regions, likely because high-latitude regions are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet.